About the Festival

Awards

We tip our hats to those who choose filmmaking as their art form. The festival jurors will name an overall award in each category. In addition, we will have a special award selection for Appalachia filmmakers in each category. This means 8 awards total!

While we are still working out the details, to qualify as an Appalachia filmmaker you must be a native or current resident of the region, or have produced the film largely in Appalachia. More details and guidelines will be available soon!

Last year we introduced beautiful hand-made trophies created by Luke Fleishman! He did a spectacular job of capturing an iconic image of our area in metal – The Flagtree. We hope to see the Flagtree return in 2016!